I’ve been holding off on any comments because I wanted to see what DIDN’T happen before the final panel.
That picture of Annie, Wabucks, Sandy and Amelia could have been dropped for any number of reasons. There’s the possibility that Papa, the Butcher, or whatever you want to call him, saw it and told her to get rid of it as a reminder of her old life. But Annie, being what she has always been, could just as well have dropped it willingly, knowing that any passerby who saw it and picked it up would recognize a major figure like Warbucks and would start asking questions as to who these people were - which in turn would bring questions about how the photo got in the country in the first place. This would be the major lead that brings Oliver into Guatemala in the first place.
In other words - there’s nothing here to indicate that Papa realizes that the kid he’s dragging from hiding place to hiding place is the adopted daughter of Oliver Warbucks, and it appears that Annie thinks that information is best kept to herself. If he did know there’d probably be a bundle of bricks in his underwear right now, because Warbucks has had people tortured and killed for far less (as anyone truly familiar with the strip’s history is aware). Nothing is being done on Oliver’s end because he’s convinced Annie can’t possibly be alive, but once he’s done mourning he’ll be devoting every resource he can spare to locating his daughter’s “abductor/killer”. Papa would be in safer hands turning himself in to the World Court than he is right now.
The search for Annie’s “killer” is a far more involved storyline than the daily comic medium can do justice to, as it will probably take years to sew up properly. Once the proper medium for its continuance has been hammered out, this will be the story to trump all previous ones. Stay tuned.
The good news is the last Annie is June 13, a month from today, so there was time to wrap up this story. The bad news is it won’t be wrapped up: looks like Annie’s final kidnapping will be to someone who cares little about Oliver’s war bucks and she’ll just vanish without a trace. Supposedly the story is going to continue somewhere, sometime, somehow… but we’re short on specifics - who knows how long the cliffhanger will get drawn out?
Well, the money came from a bank, so it’s unlikely to be counterfeit. Connie’s real problem is that she has no real idea of who these women were or where they came from, so when the powers that be put the screws down she has no means of co-operating.
Or as Gary Larson put it… “Hey, this looks like regular spaghetti… Where’s my earthworms alfredo?”… I’m a big AS fan, but sorry to say Scott dropped the ball on this one.
I’ve been holding off on any comments because I wanted to see what DIDN’T happen before the final panel.
That picture of Annie, Wabucks, Sandy and Amelia could have been dropped for any number of reasons. There’s the possibility that Papa, the Butcher, or whatever you want to call him, saw it and told her to get rid of it as a reminder of her old life. But Annie, being what she has always been, could just as well have dropped it willingly, knowing that any passerby who saw it and picked it up would recognize a major figure like Warbucks and would start asking questions as to who these people were - which in turn would bring questions about how the photo got in the country in the first place. This would be the major lead that brings Oliver into Guatemala in the first place.
In other words - there’s nothing here to indicate that Papa realizes that the kid he’s dragging from hiding place to hiding place is the adopted daughter of Oliver Warbucks, and it appears that Annie thinks that information is best kept to herself. If he did know there’d probably be a bundle of bricks in his underwear right now, because Warbucks has had people tortured and killed for far less (as anyone truly familiar with the strip’s history is aware). Nothing is being done on Oliver’s end because he’s convinced Annie can’t possibly be alive, but once he’s done mourning he’ll be devoting every resource he can spare to locating his daughter’s “abductor/killer”. Papa would be in safer hands turning himself in to the World Court than he is right now.
The search for Annie’s “killer” is a far more involved storyline than the daily comic medium can do justice to, as it will probably take years to sew up properly. Once the proper medium for its continuance has been hammered out, this will be the story to trump all previous ones. Stay tuned.